martes, 31 de mayo de 2011

Journal 1 Current event CUCUMBER BACTERIA IN GERMANY

As is common in Germany the life is healthy and families eat a lot of vegetables.
Although Cucumber has been the spotlight this week because a bacteria has spread in this vegetable and people is afraid that might be in others too.
This bacteria has killed 14 people and other 1,200 might be contaminated. This sucess has alarmed authorieties and had search the procedence of this mortal bacteria called E.coli. The possible procedence is from Spain and know German's governement has closed vegetable trade. 
The E.coli its an important bacteria in our stomach but if it consumed it is "responsible for inducing bloody diarrhoea and kidney failure in the most severely affected patients."
Health institutes had said that the bacteria is resistant to antibiotics.
Even though the procedence might be from Spain, the Agriculture Miniter has said that none of this was truth and the country had demand compensation from the European union for all the lost sales.

Germans and all Europe, because there has been a link from germany travelers to the contamination of other countries, is worried about the situation and contamination of raw vegetables, so autorithies said to Sapin to understand their situation and Germans have been warned to avoid eating cucumber or other raw vegetable to prevent any other infection.